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Botany

Lavender

Blog: Queer Ecology

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Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna)

Blog: Botanical Illustration

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Elizabeth Blackwell

Video: Bitter Pill

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pomegranate (Punica granatum)

Exhibition: Plants of the Slave Trade

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Physic garden

Exhibition: Edinburgh's Physic Gardens

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Physic garden

Video: Physic Gardens

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globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus)

Exhibition: Physicians' Flowers

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Papaver rhoeas

Blog: Women and Botany

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plant

Video: Scotland's History of Medicinal Plants

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Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

Podcast: Physicians, Plants and Poisons

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plant

Video: Plant Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna)

Blog: Deadly Nightshade

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Mandragora officinarum

Blog: Botany and the Senses

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pomegranate (Punica granatum)

Blog: Elizabeth Blackwell

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Basil Besler's sunflower

Podcast: Plants as Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Victorian doctor writing with scalpel

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